Document: Kristallnacht

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Message from SS-Grupenführer Heydrich to all State Police Main
Offices and Field Offices, November 10 1938 (before Kristallnacht,
the "night of broken glass," the first large scale pogrom
against the Jews).
Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print.
Off., 1946, Vol. III, p. 545-547.

Regards: Measures against Jews tonight.
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a) Only such measures may be taken which do not jeopardize
German life or property (for instance, burning of synagogues
only if there is no danger of fires for the neighbourhoods).

b) Business establishments and homes of Jews may be destroyed but
not looted. The police have been instructed to supervise the
execution of these directives and to arrest looters.

c) In Business streets special care is to be taken that non-Jewish
establishments will be safeguarded at all cost against damage.
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As soon as the events of this night permit the use of the designated
officers, as many Jews, particularly wealthy ones, as the local
jails will hold, are to be arrested in all districts. Initially
only healthy male Jews, not too old, are to be arrested. After
the arrests have been carried out the appropriate concentration
camp is to be contacted immediately with a view to a quick
transfer of the Jews to the camps....